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Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model With Taxes
Rogerson, Richard - 2007
We build a life cycle model of labor supply that incorporates changes along both the intensive and extensive margin and use it to assess the consequences of changes in tax and transfer policies on equilibrium hours of work. We find that changes in taxes have large aggregate effects on hours of...
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Taxation and Market Work : Is Scandinavia an Outlier?
Rogerson, Richard - 2007
worked and tax rates in three sets of economies: the US, Continental Europe and Scandinavia. While tax rates are highest in … Scandinavia, hours worked in Scandinavia are significantly higher than they are in Continental Europe. I argue that differences in …
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Structural Transformation and the Deterioration of European Labor Market Outcomes
Rogerson, Richard - 2007
worked in Europe decline by almost 45% compared to the US over this period. This change is almost an order of magnitude … mid 1970s. Third, the decline in hours worked in Europe is almost entirely accounted for by the fact that Europe develops …
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